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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
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Ideas Life
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Old Philosophy Truth
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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Death Kill People
The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one’s own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
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Feeling Oppression People
If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
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Oneself Right World
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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End Ideas Misery Poor
When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Best Crime Excuse Possible
The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.
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Absence Deep
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Evil Goodness Mindset People Sad Truth
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True

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